Hydro One Inc. recently announced it is moving forward with plans to build a new Ontario grid control center in Orillia. This new, state-of-the-art facility is expected to serve as one of the ...

For years, the energy industry’s answer to rising demand was simple: build more. More generation, more transmission, more ...

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), one of the nation’s nine regional transmission organizations (RTOs) that operate the power grid, now has some of its staff living at two of its ...

Power grids carry the seeds of their own destruction: massive flows of electricity that can race out of control in just seconds, threatening to melt the very lines that carry them. Built in the days ...

A cyberattack on the electricity grid happened in Ukraine – could it happen here too? Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters The grid has been vulnerable physically for decades. Today, we are just beginning to ...

Hidden somewhere in the city of Regina is a building full of computers that controls power for the entire province — the SaskPower Grid Control Centre. When it was built, it was located well out of ...